Template talk:Ship summary list

Due to a limitation of the Dynamic Page List, the list generated from only a partial list of all the ships in the Wiki.

DPL generates the list from Category: Ships, but is limited to 500 pages and there are (as of this writing) 860 ships in the category. The internal query processing uses page_id as the search index, which, effectively, limits the list to the first 500 ships entered in the wiki. To make this list comprehensive, the DPL setup needs to include better limitations. Tjoneslo (talk) 07:45, 22 April 2017 (EDT)

So to show my complete lack of understanding, how do we add more designs to these lists as we build them?Ronald B. Kline, Jr. (talk) 11:58, 20 January 2018 (EST)

You don't need to do anything. If you write the ship article, making sure to include the Template:InfoboxShip filled correctly, and the Category: Ships in the article. As the discussion above indicates, there are some limitations to the internal processing of the lists, so it doesn't work entirely correctly.

One solution would be to extend the Infobox to generate a category based upon the tdest parameter: Ship type codes. The challenge here is Maxsim thinks we ought to update the type codes based upon the codes used in Agent of the Imperium. See the discussion Forum:Agent of the Imperium ship types.

The other solution would be to turn the Infobox into a cargo table, which stores the data internally differently. From your perspective, they're both the same. And I don't have a technical reason to select one over the other. Tjoneslo (talk) 12:28, 20 January 2018 (EST)